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4.1.2 Main motivation of land users to implement SLM

- Costs of production per unit reduce and incomes increase

- Land degradation decreases

- Ecological and Environmental conscious
- SLM knowledge and skills increase

4.1.3 Sustainability of approach activities

Land users can make things practiced based on this approach sustainable whereby

there are government agencies from Land Development Department giving advice continuously.
Moreover, government and private agencies come to ask for advice to exchange learning and

implement area-based achievement. They apply this approach together with soil and water
conservation of other methods to change use of salt-tolerant plant varieties (rice) and halophytes.

This approach makes farmers able to restore areas with saline soil by using costs which are not so
high, but this takes long time. Natural agriculture has been conducted, which does not have to

depend on chemical fertilizers. Incomes of farmers, the ecosystem and the environment in areas

with saline soil have been improved. This is utilizing land sustainably, which is eco-friendly.

5. Conclusion

5.1 Strengths

1. Land users monitor climatic changes in predicting disasters to occur. This is used as data

for planning cultivation. As a result, there will be no damage during yield harvesting.

2. Regarding knowledge in managing soil, water and plants for utilization in areas with
saline soil, previously, rice farming could be conducted only and there was lack of knowledge of

correct and suitable saline soil amendment until currently, costs of production can be reduced.
3. The fact that the wisdom obtained from learning and practices has been applied together

with academic principles to restore areas with saline soil which are limitations and obstacles during
the past ten years have been eliminated makes farmers utilize areas with saline soil sustainably.

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